疫情下民眾的心理健康

Public Mental Health during COVID-19 Pandemic

林靜蘭(Esther Ching-Lan Lin) ； 高瑞勇(Ruei-Yong Gao) ； 丘梅萱(Mei-Shiuan Chiou) ； 凃兆璘(Jhao-Lin Tu)

《精神衛生護理雜誌》 16卷2期 (2021/09) Pp. 14-21

https://doi.org/10.6847/TJPMHN.202109_16(2).02

摘要

本文將闡述新冠肺炎疫情對於民眾心理健康的衝擊以及當前多元化線上心理健康介入之實證成效，並介紹世界衛生組織所提出之心理急救策略，以做為健康照護工作者迅速提供簡易心理介入的參考，幫助臨床患者或身邊民眾渡過疫情期間的心理危機。本文期能藉此呼籲政府當局及健康照護工作者重視疫情下民眾的心理健康，並提供合適之心理介入，一面減輕疫情創傷事件所引發民眾的身心痛苦，一面增進其後續的心理適應力及整體心理健康，進而促進國家社會的安定。

關鍵字

新冠肺炎 ； 疫情 ； 心理健康 ； 心理急救

並列摘要

This article elucidates the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on public mental health and mental health needs, in addition to providing evidence from multiple current online psychological interventions. Moreover, Psychological First Aid (PFA), developed by the World Health Organization, is introduced as an evidence-based, brief psychological intervention that is used to immediately assist patients of diverse age groups and their families to work through their psychological crises in the aftermath of a disaster, such as COVID-19. This article can provide useful information to governments and health care professionals regarding public mental health during the pandemic, thus enabling them to provide adequate psychological interventions. Such appropriate support can help to reduce the short-term physical and psychological distress caused by traumatic events resulting from the pandemic, to foster the long-term adaptive functioning and overall mental health of patients and the public, and to improve societal security.

並列關鍵字

COVID-19 ； pandemic ； mental health ； psychological first aid

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